French Beekeepers Brace for Asian Sting
April 13th, 2007 By PAUL LAUENER and MARIE-LAURE COMBES, Associated Press Writers
View of a dead Asian hornet after it was caught in a hornet nest in Parempuyre, near Bordeaux, southwestern France, in this Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007 file photo. Ambushing locals at they return home from work, Asian invaders are dismembering French natives and feeding them to their young. This horror film is playing in France's beehives, where an ultra-aggressive species of Asian hornets, who likely migrated in a pottery shipment from China, may be threatening French honey production. It's the latest Chinese challenge to France, struggling to stay competitive in the face of China's booming economy and cheaper, more flexible labor markets. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)
(AP) -- Ambushing locals as they return home from work, foreign invaders are dismembering French natives and feeding them to their young.
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